h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've always been dead set against tatoos, even though they seem to have gone wildly mainstream in the past decade or so, and simularly of body pearcings, etc... but... yeh... I'm both jelous and tempted by that one

APOD is doing a good one - Moon Or Frying Pan?

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/

The USA send David Hasselhoff to North Korea:
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/hasselhoff-nordkorea100.html

Obviously Kim Jong-Un is a fan of Baywatch. And he goes on holidays with Dennis Rodman this summer (Kim, not David).

the hoff!
*puts on regulation white teeshirt and black 1980's leather jacekt, and dons the Holy Moustache of Hasslehoff*
that storey has* to be true

My company takes April Fools Day really seriously. Four hours I was in the office this morning and they were all hiding the entire time.

Did anyone see the ad for Google Nose?
http://www.google.at/intl/en/landing/nose/

Yeah google nose was presented in a very subtle way -
designed to be overlooked by most users I think -
possibly because it really isn't a credible Fooly.
Decades ago the idea of 'smell-a-vision' technology
being added to TV programs was so ludicrous as to be
sorta funny - but these days one can never really
be sure whether a new tech is legitimate.

Here's one from Australia where plans to save the
Great Barrier Reef coral is being assisted by the
new 3D printer technology.

http://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/storm_watch_stories3&stormfile=Using_3D_printers_to_restore_coral_01_04_2013?ref=ccbox_weather_topstories

Most telling is the number of 'comments' there -
Zero, nadda...
No one knows whether it's credible or just a Fooly.
Ecological destruction may not be best subject for
Foolishness.


~jwf~

I can't help thinking they did google nose several years ago, or at least something similar.

Anyone linked to this one yet...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2013/04/florida-djs-april-fools-water-joke/63798/

A couple of american DJs warn their listeners that Dihydrogen Monoxide is coming out of their taps...

And they get suspended for it - and might end up facing criminal charges.

Dihydrogen Monoxide or Hydroxyl Acid, wiki tells us, appeared in 1990, 1994 and 'brought to widespread public attention in 1997'

I'm pretty damn' sure it was around (in UK at least) a long time before then - a schoolboy howler, methinks

Yup, I remember it in school.